FarStrider wrote:
DarthTom wrote:
In the 4 TV series, hundreds of hours of television - the multiple times characters have visited earth and in all the previous films and TV episodes when they visited earth - not once did we see any flag except the UFP.
So, it's simply adding new material to the Trek canon that former nation states keep their old vestiges.
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Uhura is from the USA (United States of Africa), Chekov is from Russia, Scotty is from Scotland, Kirk is from Iowa, Picard is from France, Riker is from Alaska. . .so even though we may not have seen flags, nations and states still exist on Earth. . . and really, there aren't that many episodes where we visited civilian places on Earth, so you can't go by what was shown in them.
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OTOH, we saw a few quiet San Francisco streets in ENT and DS9, a few quiet New Orleans streets in DS9 (which looked suspiciously similar to the SF ones
), Picard's vineyard and a resteraunt in Paris in TNG and a view from Archer's hotel window in NYC in ENT. None of which were exactly the kind of places you'd have flags waving. The only place where a flag was seen was Starfleet a academy, and of course they'd fly the colours of the UFP.